The Daily News SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1904. NOTE AND COMMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 259, 5 November 1904, Page 2

The Daily News SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1904. NOTE AND COMMENT.

Mr J. S. Larke, agent for the Canae dian Government, lecCANADA'S turing at the Mosman PROGRESS. Town Hall, S|yidney, under the auspices oi the Women's Political League, dealt in an imteresting manner with the development of Canada. After referring to its artificial prosperity during the, American Civil War, the difficulties the country experienced through sectional, racial, and religious differences, the fear of an attack by America after the war—reasons which sent Canadian securities to the lowest point in the London market and made it hard for the country to retain its own population in view of the demand for laixiur in the south, Mr Larko said in the .40 years which had- since elapsed Canada had become not only the mo&t prosperous country of her time, but apparently had the prospect of becoming one of the most powerful peoples in the world. Her territory had been expanded from a size less than New South Wales to one-third larger than the whole of Australasia. Her cxi>orts had increased with nearly three-fold more rapidity than the increase of population. The revenue had doubled in 20 years, though in that period there had been a diminished rate of taxation. Her public debt had in eight yeare been reduced by 1,000,000d015, notwithstanding that within- that period public works to the value of 60,000,000d015. had been carried out. The country that once could not retain her own people had become the Mecca of the homemaker, both from the United States! and Kurope. Her inlductries were increasing in number, variety, and extent, and the country that once was the producer of the rawest materials w'as now the exporter of finish, d goods. The change had been brought ajbout first by securing new markets, secondly by the securing and development of new territory, thirdly by the promotion of a variety of new industries, and lastly by securing the hearty co-operation and [ sympathy of the Mother Country.

Some remarks made by the Primate in the course of his serCHURCH mom at the Christchurch UNION. Cathedral consecration service* on Tuesday hajvo attracted somo attention. Speaking of the divisions between tha various churches, he said : "The Salvation Army, largely outside the churches' bounds, the surprise and wonder of all—what was it but a witness that in the centuries last passed the church Wus so much »n----grossed' with controversy that she forgot to do good and love mercy, and dismissed whole armies of her workers, lost tho diaconate, refused sisterhoods, and neglected or observed not the real condition of the poor. The church had been trying to recover lost ground indeed, hut this strange organisation proved nothing more clearly than that the church was only partially awake, and that many more special agents were required. For his purt, he was bold to say that overtures of friendship should be made to the heads of the Salvatiom Army, with a view to some form of alliance. He should like to see a great Army gathering in the Chnistchurch Cathedral. The bishop could address them, and they perhaps might learn that if they were to live and do Christian work it would not lie by tearing themselves to pieces with loud outcries and physical emotion, but by organic union with the body of Christ. Large towards the erection of cathedrals were commonly made by persons not of the Anglican Communion.. The very first offering in aid rif thp building funldiof the proposed new <\ithedral for Dunedin outside tho membors of the chapter was from a non-churchm u n, and his example haid been followed by considerable gifts from other members of other religious bodies. The Jewish Habbi, too, with much largeness 0 f heart, had offered to deliver a lecture in support of the same object. Surely fhe existence of such sentiments was a sign to l H i observed. He had been asked whether, if the people generally contributed t 0 the building of the Duncdin cathedral, he should allow the ministers of leading denominations to sjieak therein. The constituted services of the church were one thing, but should some of the ministers of a leading denomination desire to address an assemblage in the nave of suoh a building, "and to state temperately the impediments to a reunion larger that the proposal so much discussed of late, he for one should feel no insuperable difficulties in allowing his cathedral for such a use, trashing to t)M honour of the speaker and the sanctity of the place to guard it from profanation. Believing as they d':d that divisions were maintained largely 0 n traditional accounts of past circumstances and misconceptions of present teachings, it would be of immense value to all to discover what was the residuum of sincere objection to the acceptance, say, of the Lambeth quadrilateral. He could do no other than welcome any Jewish rabbi who might feel moled to state in so exceptional a building what were the real hindrances to their acceptance of the man Christ Jesus as tho Messiah for whoni they had waited so long. Such scenes might be visionary, but they would not ho inconsistent, for they would be s'teps to harmony, and harmony was the great lesson of every well-appointed cathedral. j

Tf the report that the Federal Council of Germany luis auardA SET «d the regency and the sucItACK.. cession of Lippe-DptmoUl to Count keopold of LippeDrosterfield turns v aiul to be correct the Emperor of Germany has received the most serious check upon his powers since lie begun to reign. Tie interdicted the succession ol Count Leopold and ordered the troops at lletnioid to refrain from recognising him as recent. The kaiser's enndidute lor the principality of LippeDetmold was Prince Adolphus, o:f Sha'.iniburg-Lippe, the husband ol ills Kaiser's sister, I'rintess Frederike. When the Kaiser's sister murried Prince Adolphus an understanding was come to with the Kuiser that Ihe prince should succeed to Lippe-Detinold. On the Kaiser's message intend it-ting Count Leopold being received at Detinold there was great gopular indignation, because. it was a violation of the Federal i Constitution, which gives the States l»cul autonomy.